biography
| name: |
Simon, Claude (Eugène Henri)
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pronunciation:
[seemõ]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1913– )
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Tananarive, C Madagascar. He was educated at Paris, Oxford, and Cambridge universities, fought in World War 2, and later earned a living producing wine at Salses. His novels include Le Vent (1957, The Wind), L'Herbe (1958, The Grass), and - part of a four-volume cycle - La Route des Flandres (1960, The Flanders Road). He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1985. |
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